WESTERN BRICK COMPANY
Manufacturers ot
Face Brick, Common Brick,
Haydite and Featherweight Blocks
GENERAL SALES OFFICE OFFICE AND FACTORIES
1604 Builders Building, CHICAGO, ILL. DANVILLE, ILL.
BRANCH SALES OFFICES
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., 804 Hume-Mansur Building FT. WAYNE, IND. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
REPRESENTATIVES IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES OF THE MIDDLE WEST
Facilities
The WESTERN BRICK COMPANY manufactures annually 135,000,000 brick and tile at its two plants.
The shale and clay supply for these factories is practically inexhaustible; fuel supply is owned by the company in suffi- cient quantities to last at least twenty-five years.
Shipping facilities are unequaled, as the product is distributed from Danville over seven railroads. Plants have side track room for about 75 cars, and ordinary daily shipments, during the building season, exceed 500,000.
Over 1,700,000,000 brick have been manufactured and marketed during the past twenty-seven years.
Western Haydite
Haydite, the material from which the Government’s concrete ships were made during the war, is a light- weight, burned clay aggregate, specially manufac- tured for use in concrete and cement products in place of sand, gravel or crushed rock.
“Western Haydite” Weighs less than 1,500 lb. per cu. yd. and the finished con- crete, therefore, will average from 30 to 40% lighter than that made from regular aggregates.
It is burned in clinker.. form, then crushed and screened, which gives abso- lute control of the sizing, as well as pro- ducing particles of exceeding sharpness; therefore, it makes concrete of great com- pressive and tensile strength.
This aggregate has so many advantages that it is impossible to describe them fully in this one page. Special literature is available, free, upon request.
Western Featherweight Concrete Building Blocks
All of the Western Building Blocks are manufactured from Haydite lightweight aggregate.
In addition to withstanding every test required, no matter how exacting, these blocks in 8×8×16-in. size weigh less than 30 lbs. and nails can be driven into them with the assurance that they will not work loose.
This is a new product for 1928 and we expect to produce all standard sizes and shapes.
TRADE-MARK
WESTERN STANDARD FACING BRICK
Empire scratched and rolled
Plant No. 3
Red
Light red
Very light red
Tan to golden buff Golden buff Pinkishbtif
Pink
Pearl gray Mellow old ivory Light ivory
Standard Blends: Doric Chicago; Dark Gothic Stipple X; Stipple V; Stipple X Chicago; Stipple V Chicago; Dark Empire; Full Range Erntfire; Dark Persian; Full Range Persian; Dark Cloister; Red Cloister; Mossaic; Mossblende; October Blend; Burgundy
Blend; Amethyst Blend; Western “Handmades.”
Bronze smooth
Ivory smooth
Plant No. 3
For further details and literature, write to:
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